IPv6 Standards Profile Released

Via GCN.com -

The publication of a long-awaited standards profile for IPv6 in networking equipment is an “impressive piece of work,” the chief architect for the Office of Management and Budget said Thursday.

The profile, released this week by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, begins the next step in the government’s long transition to the next generation of Internet Protocols. In a three-year dash mandated by OMB, agencies had readied their network backbones for carrying IPv6 traffic by the end of June.

“That’s a pretty big milestone,” OMB chief architect Kshemendra Paul said at a conference hosted in Washington by the Digital Government Institute. “The challenge now is to take that next step and do the hard work of architecting and planning” the next generation of networking services and applications.